Boot and shoe.



T.0,Y0UNG. BOOT AND SHOE.

APPLIOATFON FILED SEPT. 16,1907.

Patented July 6, 1909.

@wi/kwam@ THOMAS C. YOUNG, OF FURNESSVILLE, INDIANA.

BOOT AND SHOE Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented July e, 1909.

Application led September 16, 1907. Serial No. 393,015.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. YOUNG, a citizen Ot the United States, and resident oi" Iiui'nessville, in the county ot Porter and State oi Indiana, have invented certain new and use'lul Improvements in Boots and Shoes, of which the -following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to boots and shoes and particularly to means which I have de vised for supporting the rear part or" the trousers to prevent contact with the ground.

It consists in the novel 'l'eatures which will be apparent jt'rom the foliowing description taken in connection with the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a. shoe embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a cross section lengthwise oi the shoe, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation.

In the drawings I have shown an ordinary form oit shoe 1. having at its back part the tongue or lip 2 which is secured to the shoe below its top around the curved heel portion, thus forming a support ttor the lower edge of the trousers at the back part Oi the shoe. I have shown this lip or tongue 2 as a projection integral with the vamp 3, but it is to be understood that in the broader aspects of my invention it is not necessary that the lip be made integral with the vamp.

It will be noted that the lip or tongue 2 is comparatively broad at the bottom where it is attached to the shoe by the seam 4, and

that it is narrower at the top, and that, by reason of the fact that it extends around the curved heel portion ot the shoe, although formed Oli' flexible material, it will be given suHicient rigidity to elliciently support the trousers.

Without limiting myseli to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown, I claim as my invention:

l. A shoe having at its back a loose upwardly extending narrow tongue formed integral with the vamp and terminating below the top ot the shoe upper, thus forming a support for the trousers above the point where the vamp is sewed to the upper.

2. A shoe having at its back a loose upwardly extending tongue of 'flexible material below the top of the shoe, the said tongue being narrow at its upper part and broader at its bottom, and being sewed to the shoe at its bottom where the vamp is sewed to the upper.

3. A shoe having an upward loose eXtension of the vamp at the backstrap above the point where the vamp is sewed, the said extension forming with the shoe above the point of attachment a pocket adapted to support the trousers.

n testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS C. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. WALSH, HERMAN C. FREUNER. 

